if you meet the buddha on the road ask him how his son feels about being named âunwantedâ and then abandoned
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now iâm imagining a wicked-style retelling of the events of the buddhaâs life from his sonâs pov called âunwantedâ
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men will literally sneak out of their palaces to wander the lands seeking true insight into suffering instead of being a father to their children
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imagine seeing these perfect little feet and thinking "this little guy's really gonna get in the way of my quest for enlightenment huh"
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I was wondering earlier today what kind of spiritual practice might have been invented (for example) by mothers of small children.
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nearly everything Iâve read on meditation, spirituality, personal transformation, etc, was written by childless men
I canât believe how little of it is still relevant now that Iâve become a mother twitter.com/made_in_cosmosâŠ
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Good writing prompt for a short story resembling something like this.
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Been procrastinating doing short fiction for two weeks.
This feel satisfying.
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Have you read Siddhartha, by Hermann Hesse? Not exactly a biography of the buddha, but inspired by it. And his relationship with his son was an interesting part of it.
(For reference, I read the Susan Bernofsky translation, and loved it)